(upbeat music) 2 Mary Loder: 00:00:02,340 --> 00:00:03,780 - Welcome to Course Stories, 3 Mary Loder:00:00:03,780 --> 00:00:06,510 produced by the Instructional Design and New Media team 4 Mary Loder:00:00:06,510 --> 00:00:09,450 of EdPlus at Arizona State University. 5 Mary Loder:00:00:09,450 --> 00:00:12,150 In this podcast, we tell an array of course design stories 6 Mary Loder:00:00:12,150 --> 00:00:16,050 alongside other ASU Online designers and faculty. 7 Mary Loder:00:00:16,050 --> 00:00:17,670 On today's Course Story... 8 Mary Loder:00:00:17,670 --> 00:00:19,440 - Well, this is gonna be a different kind of episode. 9 Ricardo Leon: 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,510 - Yeah, definitely, we're just gonna catch you guys up, 10 Ricardo Leon:00:00:21,510 --> 00:00:23,730 but this is an intro to the new season, 11 Ricardo Leon:00:00:23,730 --> 00:00:26,100 the new semester, 2023 Fall. 12 Ricardo Leon:00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:28,450 So yeah, we're excited to get the show started.
(upbeat music) 14 Mary Loder: 00:00:30,390 --> 00:00:32,910 - Hi, I'm Mary Loder, an instructional designer 15 Mary Loder:00:00:32,910 --> 00:00:34,050 from ASU Online. 16 Ricardo Leon: 00:00:34,050 --> 00:00:36,060 - I'm Ricardo Leon, I'm a media specialist 17 Ricardo Leon: 00:00:36,060 --> 00:00:37,230 at the same place. 18 Mary Loder: 00:00:37,230 --> 00:00:38,063 - Yeah, we work together. 19 Ricardo Leon: 00:00:38,063 --> 00:00:39,940 - Let's get on with the show. - Okay.
Ricardo:- Hey, Mary. Mary:- Hey, Ricardo.
Ricardo- How's it going?
Mary- Really well now.
Ricardo- This is Fall 2023.
Mary- Yes, thank goodness the onslaught of the summer start
Mary -of fall has kind of dissipated.
Mary- Oh my gosh.
Mary- It's been busy. Ricardo- It's been very busy.
Mary - Oh my gosh.
Ricardo- Hi, Liz.
Mary - Hi, Liz. Liz Lee - Hi.
Ricardo- That's one of the new developments of the summer of 2023
Ricardo -is we brought on someone onto our team here.
Liz- Yeah, and I'm super excited to be here,
Liz- excited to helping out and being a part of this team.
Mary- Who are you, Liz, to the Course Stories platform?
Liz - Well, I'm Elizabeth Lee, most well known as Liz,
Liz- here at EdPlus.
Liz- I'm a senior instructional designer, just coming on
Liz- to help bring some type-A personality organizing
Liz- and scheduling help to the team.
Mary- We need it, we're creatives
Mary- and while we could be organized,
Mary- this is getting to be a lot.
Mary- And so thank goodness for Liz.
Mary- Thank goodness for you.
Liz- Well, it's an exciting development.
Liz-I mean, the podcast seems to be going really well
Liz-and you guys got a lot of people to schedule with,
Liz-especially this season, right.
Liz-So I'm happy to be here and lend some of that organization.
Mary- We are so happy to have you.
Ricardo- Yeah, you're a great addition to the team,
Ricardo- you're very fun and also you have this hobby
Ricardo- and I think you should share a little bit about that
Ricardo- with the listeners here.
Liz- So I have a couple hobbies that they come together
Liz- in one big hobby.
Liz- So I do basically it's not LARPing,
Liz- but it is a kind of live action role play type thing
Liz- where I get to bring in my love of history
Liz- and medieval literature, medieval history and sewing
Liz- and historical sewing techniques,
Liz- and took up archery this summer.
Mary- You won an award recently.
Liz - I did, it was very exciting.
Ricardo- So it fits under an umbrella, what's that called?
Liz- The SCA, so it's the Society for Creative Anachronism
Liz- and we just get together.
Liz- It's the like the Ren Fair on steroids.
Liz- We go camping for a week, maybe two weeks at a time,
Liz- sometimes just a couple days
Liz- and we dress up and sword fight.
Mary- Like full-on battles, I've seen pictures and videos.
Mary-It's amazing. Liz- Yes, it's a lot of fun.
Liz- So that's been my big hobby and it's great
Liz- 'cause I get to bring all my background
Liz- from an English lit major in to talk about fun things.
Liz- There's a choir that I get to do since I love singing.
Liz- And then I get to sew and hit people with sticks.
Mary- We could do a musical episode
Mary- where we all just sing the entire time.
Mary- Send us emails if you wanna hear that happen,
Mary- so that others in this group agree
Mary- 'cause Ricardo just basically shut that down with his eyes.
Mary- You can't see it, but he did.
Ricardo- Oh, no, no, I could do a musical, but did you say musical?
Liz - Yeah, so I do music when I'm there.
Mary- She sings, she's in the choir.
Mary- I'm just saying.
Ricardo- Yeah, so those are Liz's qualifications
Ricardo- to be the type A personality
Ricardo- 'cause that takes a lot of planning, right?
Ricardo- You guys have to have everything researched, one
Ricardo- and then actually have to implement these things
Ricardo- and you can't go there with an unfinished sword.
Ricardo- You gotta have your swords finished-
Liz- No, I've never made a sword, though,
Liz- but in terms of outfits, yeah, it takes a lot of planning,
Liz- a lot of not losing your pattern pieces,
Liz- keeping your life together and then of course,
Liz- when we do our big camping trips,
Liz- I play camp mom, I guess.
Liz- I run the kitchen, so I have to organize everybody,
Liz- lots of spreadsheets, lots of hounding people
Liz- to let me know if they're actually coming.
Ricardo- So is that a title
Ricardo- that we can assign you here is podcast mom?
Liz- Oh yeah, I'm totally down for a podcast mom.
Mary- Yes, okay cool, so that's your official title.
Mary- We'll put it in the show notes.
Liz- Yes!
Mary- You can add it to your CV.
Liz- They're like, what is podcast mom?
Liz- It's a whole thing.
Mary- Well, thank goodness for Liz
Mary- because we have so much going on this season
Mary- and that's what this episode's for is
Mary- to let you know what's coming.
Mary- At the end of September-ish,
Mary- we'll have our very first episode.
Mary- Liz, do you wanna tell us what's coming up?
Liz- Yeah, so we've got a lot
Liz- of really good episodes this season.
Liz- First, we're gonna be rehashing
Liz- your guys' OLC experience, right?
Liz- You guys had a lot of fun at that it sounded like.
Ricardo- Yeah, yeah. Mary- We did.
Ricardo- We did a live episode and we're gonna be playing
Ricardo- that episode for you guys over the podcast.
Mary- Yeah, we learned a lot from the people
Mary- that attended the OLC.
Mary- It's a great opportunity to learn
Mary- from your peers in higher education.
Mary- So if you haven't yet thought
Mary- of what conference you wanna do this year
Mary- or number of conferences you wanna attend,
tMary- he OLC Accelerate's coming up at the beginning of October
Mary- and I think that's in Washington DC.
Mary- And then the Innovate which is what Ricardo
Mary- and I went to last April, that's coming up again next April,
Mary- but you could actually submit
Mary- to present at that one by October 12th.
Mary- So if you have not yet submitted for the OLC Innovate,
Mary- which is a smaller more intimate,
Mary- I actually really enjoyed it,
Mary- definitely highly recommend submissions.
Mary- Liz, you presented at Accelerate last year.
Mary- What was your impression?
Liz- It was a massive event.
Liz- It was really I think similar to what you guys experience,
Liz- which people will hear a little bit more about.
Liz- It's hard to pick what to go to
Liz- or what to do while you're there.
Liz- We missed out on so many great presentations purely
Liz- because we were presenting at the same time.
Liz- So honestly, I'd really like to go just to attend one year
Liz- and not have to present
Liz- and just partly get to go see my friends presenting,
Liz- but get to connect with other people.
Liz- I think I told you guys I made some friends
Liz- playing another nerdy game, Magic the Gathering,
Liz- at the conference and we've all kept in touch via email.
Liz- So hopefully we can play,
Liz- we'll see each other again at the next one.
Mary- Liz, you're one of the coolest nerds I've ever met.
Liz- I appreciate that.
Mary- You get to say full nerd
Mary- because that was Magic the Gathering and LARPing all
Mary- in one conversation in less than three minutes.
Liz- Yes.
Mary- Yeah, Liz is also a huge Disney fan.
Mary- In fact, last year at Accelerate, she made herself
Mary- and her co-presenter Disney ears that were ASU branded.
Mary- They were gorgeous to the point
Mary- where I thought you bought them.
Mary- You're such an amazing costume designer.
Liz- Oh my gosh, thank you.
Ricardo- Do you have any social media or something that's dedicated
Ricardo- to showing off this stuff?
Liz- I guess just my personal.
Liz- People can go to my personal to see what I make, what I do.
Liz- I do take commissions, so if anyone's ever interested,
Liz- not that this is a plug for that.
Mary- She charges a lot of money, too, I've heard.
Mary- She does not negotiate her time.
Liz- It's valuable.
Ricardo- So what's your handle?
Liz- I go by Elizabeth Kristina with a K.
Mary- There you go, she'll be easy to find.
Mary- And if you can't find her, you weren't meant to.
Mary- But if you need to find her, reach out to us
Mary- and we'll help you find her.
Ricardo- Yeah, Course Stories at Course Stories.
Ricardo- What's our email address?
Mary- Coursestories@ASU.edu.
Ricardo- There you go.
Mary- Okay, so of the things that we're doing.
Mary- This summer, we were both very busy, Ricardo, Liz and I,
Mary- on this course generative AI
Mary- along with so many other contributors across the university.
Mary- This was a huge project and if you're with ASU
Mary- and you're a faculty or staff and you have not yet signed up
Mary- for the generative AI course, highly recommend,
Mary- really beautifully done.
Mary- And the project lead for that
Mary- and who did a lot of the work, Tamara Mitchell.
Mary- She's gonna be interviewing Andrew Maynard very soon
Mary- in our season as well.
Mary- Andrew, if you did not know,
Mary- hosted the very first student-based ChatGPT course.
Mary- And so we're gonna be talking to him about his experience
Mary- with ChatGPT, his recommendations, which you can also find
Mary- in his Substacks and maybe study ahead.
Mary- There's a lot to look at.
Mary- And also his experience with the students
Mary- and what did they think
Mary- and what is he gonna change moving forward.
Mary- So that'll be a great episode to catch up on as well.
Mary- And then we have some other amazing things coming.
Mary- We don't wanna give them all away,
Mary- but definitely those are some good ones to listen to.
Mary- And we're gonna stop giving spoilers
Mary- because there's so much coming up.
Mary- We're in planning mode and with Liz,
Mary- now we have the capacity to plan beyond season to season,
Mary- which is an amazing feeling.
Mary- We're so excited to have you, Liz.
Mary- And by the way, if you need something to do
Mary- 'cause you're like, oh, but I was really hoping
Mary- to listen to Course Stories, there's other things to do
Mary- in the coming weeks.
Mary- So go to ASU Online's workshop and webinars.
Mary- We have lots of opportunities
Mary- to learn about lots of different things.
Mary- Our most recent new addition is AI versus AI,
Mary- which is gonna be fabulous.
Mary- It's gonna be around basically reducing the risk
Mary- of academic integrity happening in your classroom using AI.
Mary- We also have a fabulous new webinar that debuted in August,
Mary- but we're doing it again in September
Mary- because it was so well-received.
Mary- And that is exploring ASU's resource ecosystem
Mary- basically around holistic student support.
Mary- And then if you still are like, what else?
Mary- We have a major event coming up online.
Mary- This is for anybody who wants to attend.
Mary- It's called Enhancing Education.
Mary- It's about digital pedagogy and the tools that you might use
Mary- to enhance your education on these different fields
Mary- of VR, adaptive learning, managing discussions, all kinds
Mary- of topics, generative AI.
Mary- So definitely go to our Eventbrite site
Mary- and sign up for those, ASUOnline.eventbrite.com.
Ricardo- Yeah, and all this is gonna be included in the show notes?
Mary- Absolutely, easy links.
Liz- Yeah, that Enhancing Ed will be exciting.
Liz- You'll see Mary and I in a couple of those.
Liz- I think we both signed up for the gen AI stuff.
Mary- I think I'll be in a few of them.
Mary- We'll see where we need me.
Mary- Our whole team's covering a lot this time.
Mary- So anyhow, we're gonna have a great time.
Mary- We really hope to see you at the event, Enhance Education,
Mary- which is September 20th and 21st
Mary- and there's four different sessions you can sign up for.
Mary- And then definitely check out all of the webinars
Mary- that are coming up on the Eventbrite page.
Mary- There's so many that are coming up over the next month
Mary- and we continue to add more.
Mary- And again, these are open to anybody, not just ASU.
Mary- So feel free.
Liz- Yeah, I was gonna plug
Liz- that I've got an Improving Your Online Course
Liz- with QM coming up for ASU offering.
Liz- And you can join Tamara and I
Liz- while we talk to you about Improving Your Online Course.
Liz- And if this is your first time,
Liz- you'd get the first look at the QM seventh edition rubric
Liz- for all the QM nerds out there.
Mary- Yeah, we're starting our
Mary- Applying the Quality Matters Rubric Workshop.
Mary- Again, that is really just for Arizona residents,
Mary- just based on how that works with Quality Matters.
Mary- But if you would like to attend either APPQMR
Mary- or intro to QM, which is happening at the end of the year,
Mary- that's also on Eventbrite,
Mary- but the IYOC, Improving Your Online Course is really meant
Mary- for faculty, is that right?
Liz- It is, yeah, it's faculty who have a course
Liz- that they've already developed, so it's not a new course.
Liz- It's one they've already fully developed
Liz- and maybe even run once,
Liz- so that we can talk about how to improve your course
Liz- on a couple of different areas.
Liz- It's nice 'cause it focuses just
Liz- on those essential standards,
Liz- which some of them have changed
Liz- if you've seen the new rubric. Ricardo- So how does that work?
Ricardo- So someone says, hey, here's my course, I wanna submit it
Ricardo- for this kind of review?
Liz- Yeah, so you sign up for the course,
Liz- or the workshop rather, and you have a course
Liz- that you've previously worked on or taught before.
Liz- And there's just it's good but you wanna make it great.
Liz- I always think about the Disneyland, it's never complete.
Liz- We're always improving, we're always changing.
Liz- And it's an opportunity to get feedback
Liz- from a Quality Matters facilitator.
Liz- In this case, it'll be and Tamara.
Liz- And you get feedback from other peers
Liz- from other disciplines.
Liz- So it's really great 'cause you get a preview
Liz- at how other disciplines
Liz- and other courses are addressing some
Liz- of those essential standards,
Liz- like how do I communicate my learning objectives clearly
Liz- or how do I communicate the relationships
Liz- between various course components
Liz- that can contribute to student motivation,
Liz- student success, student understanding
Liz- of what the heck I'm supposed to be doing in this course.
Liz- So it's a really great opportunity to get feedback.
Liz- My favorite part of it is you walk away
Liz- with a really clear course improvement plan
Liz- with a timeline of when you're gonna get it completed
Liz- along with who you need to go to for help.
Liz- And you get some really clear feedback
Liz- on how to implement those changes.
Liz- So it's a really great workshop if you haven't taken it yet.
Ricardo- Awesome, awesome.
Mary- I think those are all the plugs we meant to do.
Liz- I think so. Mary- Did we get them all in?
Ricardo- What else is on our agenda, podcast mom?
Liz- That was it, just plugs at the end here.
Mary- Wow. Ricardo- Wow, yeah.
Ricardo- So this was a little bit of a different episode
Ricardo- for you listeners, a little bit of a,
Ricardo- hey, we're starting a new season
Ricardo- and we got a lot of stuff planned out for you.
Mary- That's right.
Mary- Wow, lackluster end, huh?
Ricardo- Yeah. Mary- Come back, don't leave us.
Mary- We'll see you in a couple weeks.
Mary- Did that sound desperate?
Ricardo- Mm-hm. Mary- Okay.
Mary- Don't leave us, I'm just gonna get down on my knees and beg.
Ricardo- I think that'll be the subtitle
Ricardo- for this episode is Don't Leave Us.
(Mary laughs) (Liz laughs)
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Ricardo- You can reach us at coursestories@ASU.edu.
Ricardo- Course Stories is produced by the Instructional Design
Ricardo- and New Media team at EdPlus at Arizona State University.
Ricardo- If you're an instructor at ASU Online,
Ricardo- tell us your course story
Ricardo- and we may feature it in a future episode.
Ricardo- Thanks for listening.